Speaking From the Heart: Accepting Emotions 7 Day Challenge

(video) Most of us are uncomfortable with some of our emotions… to the point that we try to deny or ignore them.

It can be challenging to try to feel all of them! Take this 7 day challenge and see for yourself!

Are you comfortable with ALL of your emotions?

Enjoy,
Elena
theJoyLab.net

Your Questions: Why Isn't This Meditation Practice Working?!

(video) What happens when you have been diligently doing a meditation practice and you feel like it isn’t helping? If it works for other’s shouldn’t it work for you? Is there something wrong with me, how I’m doing the practice, or is this just the wrong practice for me right now?

How do you know when a practice is working for you?
Enjoy,
Elena
theJoyLab.net

Your Questions: Why Can't I Find the Perfect Partner?

(video) What a juicy question!

There are a lot of ways to play with the answer to this… one is looking at what you feel that you are missing and giving that to yourself.
Don’t feel loved enough? Then see and feel how you can you love yourself more.
Don’t feel appreciated? See and feel how you can appreciate yourself more.
The beauty of this is that the more you love and appreciate yourself the more attractive you are to others… Hello Mr. Perfect! :)
How would you answer this question right now?
Why do you feel that she hasn’t found her perfect partner?
Enjoy,
Elena
theJoyLab.net

Your Questions: How to Decompress After a Long Day?

(video) Being busy can become such a pervasive habit that we forget to relax.

Decompressing after a long day can be as simple as a two minute relaxation practice that interrupts the day’s stressful rhythm and reminds you that it’s time to slow down and enjoy yourself. Yay!
What do you do to relax?
Enjoy,
Elena
theJoyLab.net

Speaking From the Heart: Expressing All of You

(video)  Is it a good idea to express everything that you think and feel?

Should you actually tell someone that you think that their ideas is crazy?
And can you be vulnerable enough to admit to someone when you are afraid?
Is the alternative denial and misery?
What do you say?
Enjoy,
Elena
theJoyLab.net

 

Speaking From the Heart: Feeling with Every Cell

(video) Being willing to feel things, to feel with every cell of your body every feeling that comes, be it joy or sadness… opens you up.
Allows you to experience all of it.
And let it all go.
Can you feel with every cell of your body whatever you are feeling right now?
Enjoy,
Elena
theJoyLab.net

Speaking From the Heart: Acknowledging Fear Isn't Cultivating Fear

(video)  How do we acknowledge fear with out cultivating more of it?

One way is to feel it with out thinking about it, with out going into the story of why you are feeling it.
Then it goes.
Making room for what ever is next!
Like happiness.
How do you acknowledge fear without cultivating more of it?
Enjoy,
Elena
theJoyLab.net